The Message and the Kingdom

Informationen zum Autor Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002). Zusammenfassung Set against the backdrop of Roman imperial history! this book demonstrates how the quest for the kingdom of God by Jesus! Paul and the earliest churches should be understood as both a spiritual journey and a political response to mindless acts of violence and injustice that characterized the kings of men.

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Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).

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Set against the backdrop of Roman imperial history, this book demonstrates how the quest for the kingdom of God by Jesus, Paul and the earliest churches should be understood as both a spiritual journey and a political response to mindless acts of violence and injustice that characterized the kings of men.